“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] They were painful when I gently touched them, but the toes moved at the first joint. [...]

[...] The turn went very well indeed—much less painful for my wife. [...]

[...] If parents believe that the body is somehow an inferior vehicle for the spirit, or if they simply view the body as unreliable or weak and vulnerable, then children will at an early age begin to consider good health as a rarity, and learn to take depression, poor spirits, and bodily aches and pains to be a natural, normal condition of life.

[...] Evidently she had neglected to do so, at least once, yet had felt no pain. [...] Both of us have speculated about whether she is less sensitive to pain while in her trance state.

(Then before supper on Saturday she began to feel new, very strange sensations: painful in the hip, but much more pleasant by the time they reached the foot. [...]

[...] The same sensations were running painfully down her right leg from the hip—but again, “they feel good by the time they reach my toes.”

It always pains me to speak so briefly and run. [...]

[...] [I’d injured the shoulder last summer while pulling on the starting cord for the lawn mower; it’s bothered me ever since, although not steadily.] The pain was intense, although not as bad when I’d first hurt the muscle. [...] So even in that state of deep relaxation, in which I could move only with effort and concentration, I learned something that I fully realized at the time: Even though I was far out on a “trip” of some sort, I could still feel pain. [...]

[...] I savored the experience now because I felt at a deep peace and my body was almost free of aches and pains. [...]

[...] Certain pains through association can (underlined) send an individual backward to the original fear or situation that first caused it.

Ruburt has at times reacted in that manner, though to a less dramatic degree, when an echo of an old frightening physical pain is felt. [...]

(Yesterday we received from Hal Williams begonia pills for pain; he’d mentioned sending these to Jane during his visit recently. [...]

[...] When she became aware of them, she got a pain in a leg, but a little later did tell me about them.)

[...] She said, regarding her leg pain, that when she got it just before the session she felt like crying, but didn’t want to interrupt the session. [...]

Shawn — chest pains

Certain strains were involved that were in one way as natural as growing pains. [...]

[...] I still use the visionary technique I came up with when these sessions started: I envision a large sponge with which I go over her entire body, every inch of it, and soak up all the stiffness and pain and immobility. [...]

[...] You can minimize pain or discomfort through drugs, cutting down on the “cry” of any symptoms. [...]

[...] Under such conditions it seems only rational to look for the worm in the apple, so to speak, and to expect pain or danger in each new experience or encounter.

[...] One of the nurses called her “a pain in the ass,” then laughed when she added that the woman did have hemorrhoids. [...]

(She was so much in pain that I ended up giving her at least ten minutes of what I thought were good suggestions. [...]

[...] She didn’t look so hot, with her face all screwed up in pain. [...]

Their lives became a way of avoiding pain instead of seeking out pleasure or satisfaction. [...]

[...] It had been painful for her to be turned, and I’d tried to relieve some of her tenseness by massaging her neck muscles and back. [...]

[...] A couple of months ago, a close friend developed painful tooth and jaw symptoms — resulting in a loss of weight — for the reasons given below.)